Ancient Scandinavians dragged 59 boulders to a seaside cliff near what is now the Swedish fishing village of Kaseberga. They carefully arranged the massive stones  each weighing up to 4,000 pounds (1,800 kilograms)  in the outline of a 220-foot-long (67-meter) ship overlooking the Baltic Sea.

Archaeologists generally agree this megalithic structure, known as Ales Stenar ("Ale's Stones"), was assembled about 1,000 years ago, near the end of the Iron Age, as a burial monument. But a team of researchers now argues it's really 2,500 years old, dating from the Scandinavian Bronze Age, and was built as an astronomical calendar with the same underlying geometry as England's Stonehenge.(Snip)

Other researchers familiar with the site are skeptical. Among other arguments, they cite the results of carbon dating to reject Mörner's interpretation.

Seems there's always this attempt to link to Stonehenge as a precusor, but since there is an abundance of evidence for Northerly tracks of Nordic travel one might look to Scotland for other possible pre-cursors or contemporaries of such structures:

I visited just such a structure in October. It is the Woodhenge at Cahokia, a city of at least 15,000 folks across the river from St Louis. It dates to 1200 AD or so

After the visit and seeing and climbing the very large earth pyramid I used the sun to plot an east west line in my driveway. Knowing that, I laid out a perpendicular and had a perfect north south line. It is easy. Once you have the cardinal points, determining the equinoxes and the solstice becomes easy.

Monks Mound is laid out precisely in alignment with the cardinal points. From the Woodhenge center pole looking east the alignment of the mound south edge is barely to the right of the top edge of the mound. It marks the summer solstice sunrise. It misses the edge by an angle representing the latitude!

Cahokia is readily available........ go! PS: At the time Cahokia was larger than London and most european cities. Greater Cahokia was estimated to be 25,000 people

It is believed by many that Nordic expeditionary tribesmen and settlers traveled extensively through North America and left evidence of their arrival as far away as Oklahoma.

It is certainly reasonable to propose that Vikings c. 900 - 1000 AD who made it to what eventually became Minneapolis/St. Paul would have traveled southward to what became St. Louis and left evidence of their presense at a place called Cahokia.

Ale's Stones, also known as "Sweden's Stonehenge," consists of 59 stones that appear to form a 220-foot-long ship overlooking the Baltic Sea near the fishing village of Kâseberga. Credit: Anders LagerâsI/ Wikimedia Commons.

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posted on 07/02/2015 8:44:54 AM PDT
by SunkenCiv
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